Izdavač: Ostalo
Žanr: Hard Rok i Metal, Rok
Poreklo: Strani izvođač

Original, made in EU
Novo, u celofanu

Studio album by Whitesnake
Released 18 April 2008
Recorded 2007
Studios
Casa DALA and Clear Lake Audio (Los Angeles, California)Snakebyte Studios (Lake Tahoe, Nevada)
Genre Hard rock
Length 59:14
Labels
SPV/SteamhammerWEA (Japan)
Producers The Brutal Brothers
(David CoverdaleDoug AldrichMichael McIntyre)
Whitesnake chronology
Live: In the Shadow of the Blues
(2006) Good to Be Bad
(2008) 30th Anniversary Collection
(2008)

Good to Be Bad is the tenth studio album by British-American hard rock band Whitesnake, released on 18 April 2008 in Germany, 21 April 2008 in Europe and 22 April in North America by SPV/Steamhammer. It was the band`s first album of new studio material in a decade, since 1997`s Restless Heart, not including the four new tracks recorded for the 2006 live album Live: In the Shadow of the Blues. The album was the first studio album to feature guitarists Reb Beach and Doug Aldrich. The album charted at number 62 on the Billboard 200 chart,[1] number 8 on the Top Independent albums chart, number 23 on the Canadian Albums Chart and number 7 on the UK Albums Chart.[2] As of sales in March 2011, the album sold over 700,000 copies worldwide, considered as unexpected as an independent label release.[3]

The album contained three singles, `Lay Down Your Love`, `All for Love`, `Summer Rain`, and one promotional single, `Can You Hear the Wind Blow`. Despite being released through a hard rock independent label, alongside the album itself (with the exception of the Warner record label in Japan), all of the singles failed to chart.

On 28 April 2023, the album received a reissue by RHINO Entertainment under the name, Still...Good to Be Bad, similar to the 2011 expanded Japanese version. The reissue contained 2-LP remixes and remasters alongside alternate mixes and demo `Evolutions` tapes. The album was widely made available for streaming despite the majority of the songs from that album appeared on the `Red, White, and Blues` trilogy (2020`s Love Songs and The Rock Album, and 2021`s The Blues Album), respectively.

Background
Ever since continuing their touring non-stop from 2003 to support the band`s 25th anniversary, Whitesnake had signed into new a record contract with Steamhammer/SPV and released their 2006`s Live... in the Shadow of the Blues live album, containing four songs which ended up on the album`s tracklist.[4][5] That apparently speculated that plans for a new Whitesnake album would be in business after which Coverdale planned to only tour for a short period of time with the band, asserting that it would be just `for fun.` However, despite his claims, Coverdale decided to plan ahead in fact that the band was coming up with new material to a need for `new meat to bite into` in order to keep the touring `interesting`.[6]

All tracks are written by David Coverdale and Doug Aldrich, except where noted.

No. Title Length
1. `Best Years` 5:16
2. `Can You Hear the Wind Blow` 5:03
3. `Call on Me` 5:01
4. `All I Want, All I Need` 5:40
5. `Good to Be Bad` 5:13
6. `All for Love` 5:13
7. `Summer Rain` 6:10
8. `Lay Down Your Love` 6:01
9. `A Fool in Love` 5:50
10. `Got What You Need` 4:15
11. "Til the End of Time` 5:32

European Bonus Disc
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `Summer Rain` (Acoustic version) 5:21
2. `All I Want All I Need` (Radio edit) 3:58
3. `Take Me with You` (Live) Coverdale, Micky Moody 7:51
4. `Ready to Rock` (Enhanced video) 4:19

Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album`s liner notes.[8][46]

Whitesnake
David Coverdale — vocals
Doug Aldrich — guitars, backing vocals
Reb Beach — guitars, backing vocals
Timothy Drury — keyboards, backing vocals
Uriah Duffy — bass, backing vocals
Chris Frazier — drums
Additional personnel (2023 Alternate mixes)
Tommy Aldridge — drums (Bonus tracks from Live: In the Shadow of the Blues, re-recorded remixes)
Cami Thompson — backing vocals (Hook City Harlots)
Misty Rae — backing vocals (Hook City Harlots)
Jackie Landrum — backing vocals (Hook City Harlots)
Rick Metz — saxes
Joshua Reed — trumpet
Production
Coverdale, Aldrich, Michael McIntyre (The Brutal Brothers) — producer, engineer, mixing
David Donnelly — mastering (at DNA, Los Angeles)
Mike Tacci — engineering
Preston Boebel — assistant engineering
Design
Hugh Gilmour — artwork design & linear notes
Management
David Weise — business management
Jeffery Light — legal affairs
Myman Abell Fineman Fox — legal affairs
Rod MacSween — agent
Reissue
Nik Rosales — assistant engineering
Christopher Collier — mixing (2023 remix); backing vocals
Tom Gordon — mixing (2023 remix); producer
Scott Hull — remastering (at Masterdisk, Peekskill, New York)
Rob Gross — product manager
Kristin Attaway — production & packaging manager
William Hames — studio photography
Sheryl Farber — additional editorial
John Srebalus — additional editorial
Tom Gordon — additional editorial